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The Order- History Part 10

We continue with the information presented in the “American Rosae Crucis” published by Imperator H. Spencer Lewis in 1916. We will begin with information about the Greeks.

But the Greeks were now coming to Thebes to study, and it is at this time that the world wide spread of the Order began.

Pythagoras is so often mentioned as one of the earliest messiahs of the Order, but in truth there were many who preceded him. Among the first to become worldly famous in the Order was Solon, who became the first chaplain in a Roseacrucian Temple who was not an Egyptian. He entered the Order in 618 BCE, and remained a true messiah until his transition in 550 BCE, leaving for our use some of the most beautiful and inspiring prayers ever spoken by a yearning soul. Contemporary with him was Anaximander, who came from Miletus to study at Thebes. From Miletus also came Anaximenes. Then came Heraclitus, who was the last of the foreign messiahs at Thebes preceding the coming of Pythagoras.

Pythagoras was born in Samos on November 26, 582 BCE. He entered the Order at Thebes on the second of April, 531 BCE, and having passed through all the initiations and examinations he entered the Illuminati, October 16, 529 BCE, and left at once for Crotona (Krotono) Italy, with jewels and documents to found a Grand Lodge there. There were a few so called secret cults in existence at that time in Italy, and when Pythagoras began to promulgate his plans and admitted that women might not only become members, but could hold offices, he attracted the attention of the most advanced thinkers of the day. Theano, the wife of Pythagoras, was one of the principle officers for three years. The Grand Lodge eventually had 300 Brothers and Sisters and issued many charters for local lodges of the Order throughout Italy.

At this point its time to jump away from this and find what some other resources have to say. While H. Spencer Lewis suddenly jumps to the Christian era, Jean-Louis de Biasi, present Grand Master of the Ordo Aurum Solis and Grand Patriarch of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross fills in the missing years with some interesting information in his book “Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses”.

This information involves the teachings of the Theurgic and Hermetic traditions. There were powerful primeval deities. I suppose we might think of them as the Anunnaki. They were composed of four pairs of personified deities. Each pair represented the male and female.

Nun and Naumet were the personification of the primeval seas and the world in the space before creation.

Kuk and Kauket were the personification of the infinite darkness that reigned in the primeval space before the birth of the sun.

Hu and Hauhet personified the infinite.

Amun and Amaunet personified that which is hidden.

These eight were the divine Ogdoad. We might think of them as the Masters of the eight rays, Abstract Spiritual; Concrete Spiritual; Abstract Mental, Concrete Mental; Upper Emotional, Lower Emotional; Physical and Etheric. They did not have physical bodies but they did have non-physical bodies.

The eight formed an egg out of Chaos and when the egg broke the sun god Ra was born and appeared in a blaze of light. Next the eight manifested a lake with a lotus floating in it. This flower opened up in a dazzling light and gave birth to a feminine being. This Goddess rose up into the heavens and united with Ra. From their union Thoth was born. He was the first divine offspring and founder of the Hermetic Tradition. For this reason the Ogdoad are sometimes called the “souls of Thoth”.

Three of the divine couples retired from the visible world, remaining guardians of equilibrium. Amon and Amaunet left Hermopolis for Thebes of which we have heard so much. Hermopolis was considered the center of the world and the ancient Egyptians called it Khemenou, of the “city of the Eight” but the Greeks called it Hermopolis. Thoth has also been called the Lord of Khemenou. The Temple of Hermopolis became the place where all magical rites were performed, retaining the presence of the eight divinities of the Ogdoad under the presidency of Thoth, to whom the city was dedicated. An assembly of priests and Theurgists was created there under the protection of Thoth.

Perhaps these priests kept suitable “human vessels” for these Divinities to “ride” like the Loa ride their modern Voodoo worshipers? The unseen Anunnaki could take possession and come down to visit from time to time?

Petosiris, was a Grand Priest of Thoth in Hermopolis. He was also called the “Priest of the Ogdoad”. He lived in a period following the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great (332 BCE.) Petosiris built a wall around the Temple and named the place “the birthplace of all Gods”. Thoth is the God of writing and scribes. He taught reading and writing to humanity.

But first a final word about Solon. The Egyptians told Solon about the ancient war for the Mediterranean basin that had destroyed the Anunnaki civilization. Atlantis had tried to take over the Mediterranean basin and the ancient Greeks were the ones who had defeated Atlantis!